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Debugging Stop 0xAB

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Note: Before reading this article, please take into consideration this is a old dump file, and the cause of the crash was due to a bug in Windows 8, which Microsoft have now released a fix for, which can be downloaded here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2778344 We can see this dump file originates from a Windows 8 system, by using the vertarget command we can gain some useful operating system information. Another side note, I would like to add with this bugcheck, is make sure you also update your graphics card drivers and the list of installed of Windows Updates/Hot Fixes can be found within the SystemInfo.txt file. I would like to explain briefly, what Session Space is, and how it related to this bugcheck. This address space is area of memory assigned to one particular session, and is shared by all the processes within that particular session space. A session is simply all the processes running within that user's logon. Each session is given a Session ID which helps identify ...